Contributions to the North British and Edinburgh reviews, 1844-1874 [by J. Moncreiff. 21 extracts to which a gen. title and contents have been prefixed]. |
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Pàgina 253
... opinion seems to have been renounced by the great mass of the people . Men had ceased to think for themselves , either on matters of public policy , or on the lighter subjects of literature and taste . Terrified by the horrors of the ...
... opinion seems to have been renounced by the great mass of the people . Men had ceased to think for themselves , either on matters of public policy , or on the lighter subjects of literature and taste . Terrified by the horrors of the ...
Pàgina 258
... opinion , the method , clearness , and vivacity of the Review showed in favourable contrast , as a smart four - in- hand stage - coach of the present day may be supposed to do , com- pared with the lumbering conveyances in which our ...
... opinion , the method , clearness , and vivacity of the Review showed in favourable contrast , as a smart four - in- hand stage - coach of the present day may be supposed to do , com- pared with the lumbering conveyances in which our ...
Pàgina 260
... opinion of his merits - and will be felt , I trust , to have done no scanty or unwilling justice to his great and peculiar powers . " — Vol . iii . , p . 133 . " I have spoken in many places rather too bitterly and confidently of the ...
... opinion of his merits - and will be felt , I trust , to have done no scanty or unwilling justice to his great and peculiar powers . " — Vol . iii . , p . 133 . " I have spoken in many places rather too bitterly and confidently of the ...
Pàgina 265
... of these characteristics , and while it has lost nothing of its attractiveness , has gained in vigour and simplicity . ful satire , he stands , in our opinion , Lord Jeffrey's Contributions to the Edinburgh Review . 265.
... of these characteristics , and while it has lost nothing of its attractiveness , has gained in vigour and simplicity . ful satire , he stands , in our opinion , Lord Jeffrey's Contributions to the Edinburgh Review . 265.
Pàgina 266
... opinion , without a rival in his time . It was his favourite and most dreaded weapon , of which his rapid fancy , quick sense of the ridiculous , and his command of happy expression , rendered him as complete a master as ever practised ...
... opinion , without a rival in his time . It was his favourite and most dreaded weapon , of which his rapid fancy , quick sense of the ridiculous , and his command of happy expression , rendered him as complete a master as ever practised ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 265 - A neutral Government is bound — First, to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming, or equipping, within its jurisdiction, of any vessel which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a Power with which it is at peace...
Pàgina 582 - Secondly, not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the. base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms, or the recruitment of men. Thirdly, to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and, as to all persons within its jurisdiction, to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligations and duties.
Pàgina 250 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes: How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will ! Where crowds can wink, and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own.
Pàgina 265 - Queen, and the others respectively by the President of the United States, the King of Italy, the President of the Swiss Confederation, and the Emperor of Brazil.
Pàgina 582 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Pàgina 262 - That Prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the Church above Presbyters, is, and hath been, a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people, ever since the Reformation, they having been reformed from Popery by Presbyters, and, therefore, ought to be abolished.
Pàgina 272 - due diligence" referred to in the first and third of the said rules ought to be exercised by neutral governments in exact proportion to the risks to which either of the belligerents may be exposed, from a failure to fulfil the obligations of neutrality on their part...
Pàgina 184 - Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannonshot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.
Pàgina 209 - His eyes vacant and spiritless ; and the corpulence of his whole person was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman than of a refined philosopher.
Pàgina 279 - Europe have reason to be thankful, that he ' went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...